What a beautiful post!!!
My mom used to say this is just one moment in time..I need to remember that when I feel life is bleak.
Beautiful forum thread dryad..wow love it.
Big-haired Bitch/Personality Hire
Growing up, I was the over achiever who had to always prove herself...for a multitude of reasons that I don't really wanna get into. In some respects, I'm still that way. But it's not even remotely as bad as it used to be when I was growing up.
As cheesy as this is gonna sound, when I graduated high school, I was gifted with the book 'Oh the Places You'll Go' by Dr. Seuss. It has Dr. Seuss's signature silliness to it, but reading it as a young adult vs. reading it now, I think it's so powerful in its simplicity.
Given my nature of over-achieving, sometimes I get to a place where I let even the smallest mistakes (sometimes the ones that no one notices or perceives as a mistake but me) throw me off balance.
Although I could seriously post the entire book in this thread (because the entire thing applies), I actually have this particular passage from 'Oh the Places You'll Go' bookmarked to read over when I find myself in a slump for making a mistake:
"...
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.
I'm sorry to say but, sadly, it's true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you."
They may not be the most encouraging words, but they humble me remind me that I'm human. And as such, I'm bound to make mistakes, imagined or otherwise.
And then I don't feel so shitty anymore.
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